This is a summary of a request from Ironclad Performance Wear Corp. to hire Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Brill LLP as bankruptcy counsel, filed Sept. 22 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Fernando Valley, Calif.

Inditex SA said Wednesday that the autumn and winter sales season got off to a more robust start than expected, although the operator of the Zara chain reported a bigger-than-expected decline in profitability triggered in part by currency fluctuations.

A recovery in the fortunes of global miners has encouraged increased payouts to shareholders, but BHP Billiton Ltd. is following other mining companies in stating that salaries of its top bosses wouldn’t rise this fiscal.